Farm legislations: Farmers’ body announces to gherao Delhi

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, October 2

Intensifying its agitation against three agriculture related legislations, the Haryana chapter of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Co-ordination Committee (AIKSCC) on Friday announced to hold demonstrations in phased manner in coming days.

Yogendra Yadav, member of the national working group of the AIKSCC, while interacting with mediapersons here on Friday, said representatives of all those parties supporting the anti-farmer legislations would have to face the public protest with black flags across the state.

Disclosing the committee’s next course of action, he informed farmers would organise a protest demonstration in front of the residence of Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala in Sirsa on October 6 to seek his resignation and October 14 will be observed as the MSP Right Day.

National Capital Delhi will be gheraoed on November 26 and 27, he added.

“In view of the farmers’ agitation against three farm legislations, either Dushyant Chautala should give up his position of power for the sake of farmers on whose issues he got elected or the farmers will eventually leave him,” said Yadav.

All India Kisan Sabha’s state vice-president, Inderjit Singh, countered the claim of Haryana Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar regarding the purchase of crops with MSP as there were caps in place for maximum amount of produce and other stringent conditions .

The farmers’ leader reiterated the committee's resolve to intensify the resistance and making the agitation more and more broad based by roping in more farmers’ unions and labourers in the struggle.

Farmers’ leaders Sumit Singh, Deepak Lamba and Preet Singh were also present.